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it was the ranking republican of the time we took the vote. >> senator ayotte? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank all of our military leaders are being here today, for your service and everything. everything you do for us. to put things in a bigger picture here, sequestration, on a scale from one to 10. one being the least dangerous and 10 being the most dangerous, how dangerous is sequestration in terms of the safety of this country? >> i will take a shot at that, senator. it sure feels like a think tank may not country and want to negotiate me down -- >> i'm asking for your professional judgment. any disagreement on that? >> we are at a place right now where we are facing very dangerous times around the world. would you all agree with that? it's not a time to take a peace dividend? >> if i could, because i didn't get a chance to respond on the issue of the mechanism is one thing. the magnitude of this thing even if we got all of the authority and the universe to deal with it, this would be the steepest, biggest reduction in total obligating authority in history at a ti
it was the ranking republican of the time we took the vote. >> senator ayotte? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank all of our military leaders are being here today, for your service and everything. everything you do for us. to put things in a bigger picture here, sequestration, on a scale from one to 10. one being the least dangerous and 10 being the most dangerous, how dangerous is sequestration in terms of the safety of this country? >> i will take a shot at that,...
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thank you. >> they were right. >> okay, thank you, senator ayotte. senator donnelly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director, thank you. general, thank you. i apologize if some of these questions have been asked. i decide that a few minutes. when you look at north korea and the decision-making there, how is that working right now? >> that's a great question. there isn't much of a chain. it's probabl vested in the new young leader, so there n'td f information flow decision options. they're all centered in one person. >> for a better way to put it, the decision is being made under seat-of-the-pants -- >> that the impression coming yes, sir. i think he's driven by the need to prove his position. consolidate his power and a lot of what he is doing and saying are driven by messages to the domestic audience and international audience. >> to the generals played a role other than to tell him what he wants to hear? >> pretty much, it's yes or three bags full for the military right now. >> the chinese, is there a point where they are no longer able to attend can
thank you. >> they were right. >> okay, thank you, senator ayotte. senator donnelly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director, thank you. general, thank you. i apologize if some of these questions have been asked. i decide that a few minutes. when you look at north korea and the decision-making there, how is that working right now? >> that's a great question. there isn't much of a chain. it's probabl vested in the new young leader, so there n'td f information flow decision...
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. >> senator ayotte is next. we're going to go do some other heitkamp. senator heitkamp, you're recognized. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman and thank you for appearing today. i do know janet be well and she's not perfect. tell her i said that. during my time in public life and been a tax auditor, tax commissioner, said this is an area on how difficult it is and how difficult it is to make up every day and whether you're primary mission is to protect people. we are held accountable for how we do it and we are in a time of tight budget questions. when we have 10 years or we aren't able to pass audit, it gets increasingly difficult to justify to the american public that we are doing the right thing here. i'm new to this and i can tell you i sat through 10 hearings like this on a gao audited a tougher. i want to give you an example of why the american public is frustrated. recently in north dakota you guys remixed three full-body scanners to move to other locations to replace scanners that she had to replace because they did not pass privacy measures. by
. >> senator ayotte is next. we're going to go do some other heitkamp. senator heitkamp, you're recognized. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman and thank you for appearing today. i do know janet be well and she's not perfect. tell her i said that. during my time in public life and been a tax auditor, tax commissioner, said this is an area on how difficult it is and how difficult it is to make up every day and whether you're primary mission is to protect people. we are held...
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>> thank you, senator ayotte. let me start by saying the vision of service to smaller and medium-size communities is a priority for the department of transportation, and in terms of whether or not justice decides that there should be a divestiture or should not be a dives sit tour, we think it shouldn't hurt small communities and the merged carrier would have a slot portfolio that would be sufficient to serve the needs of smaller communities as well. and if doj decides to require the -- some of the slots, -- is there a spelled-out procedure for distributing them? if so, what would you anticipate that being? and is it a competitive auction process for all carriers that operate at dca or will certain airlines get a preference, for example, carriers with the smaller presence, how would that process work? >> senator, that process is up to doj. i know it's frustrating not to be able to talk about the process. but that is something that would be up to doj. >> would you have input in it? >> we've talked to doj. we advice
>> thank you, senator ayotte. let me start by saying the vision of service to smaller and medium-size communities is a priority for the department of transportation, and in terms of whether or not justice decides that there should be a divestiture or should not be a dives sit tour, we think it shouldn't hurt small communities and the merged carrier would have a slot portfolio that would be sufficient to serve the needs of smaller communities as well. and if doj decides to require the --...
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. >> senator kelly ayotte had ayotte had a confrontation at a town hall meeting with a relative of a victim of the massacre. jeff flake senator from arizona posted on his facebook page facebook page because of his gun control votes that his popularity is roughly the same level as pond. do these statements get the white house confidence that you may be able to go back and pass some kind of gun control legislation in the coming days, weeks or months? >> i think what we have seen is americans out there who you know engage on an issue and feel passionately about an issue and feel like it's the right thing to do, and they appreciate when the representatives disagree with them. and when i say them, and made 85% of the american people and the vast majority of the constituents of arizona or new hampshire virtually every state in the country. what the president made clear in the rose garden after the background checks vote went down is that americans who were disappointed by that action and by that failure of the senate to listen to the people they represent need to speak up because in the en
. >> senator kelly ayotte had ayotte had a confrontation at a town hall meeting with a relative of a victim of the massacre. jeff flake senator from arizona posted on his facebook page facebook page because of his gun control votes that his popularity is roughly the same level as pond. do these statements get the white house confidence that you may be able to go back and pass some kind of gun control legislation in the coming days, weeks or months? >> i think what we have seen is...
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. >> thank you, senator ayotte. >> senator graham. >> i would like unanimous consent to put the map in to evidence here. i think it's part of the file. >> that would be fine, can you tell us what map it is? >> yes. it talks about different airbase and navel bases. >> okay. thank you. >> i'll put that in the record. one, you've been candid. thank you. i want to make sure you understood about what you said about syria. both of you agree with petraeus and clinton we should start looking at military assistance in syria. is that correct? >> that that was our position. .coop to say, senator, that obviously there are a number of factors involved here that ultimately lead to the president's decision. >> yeah. -- no. >> supported his decision. again. >> the answer to your question is yes. >> for both of you. >> we. >> essential to the president to make -- who was charge in benghazi. were you in charge, secretary panetta? >> what do you mean? charge. >> as running the operation trying to find a way to save our ambassador who was lost, trying to prevent our people from being killed providing assi
. >> thank you, senator ayotte. >> senator graham. >> i would like unanimous consent to put the map in to evidence here. i think it's part of the file. >> that would be fine, can you tell us what map it is? >> yes. it talks about different airbase and navel bases. >> okay. thank you. >> i'll put that in the record. one, you've been candid. thank you. i want to make sure you understood about what you said about syria. both of you agree with petraeus and...
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senator kelley ayotte. [applause] max, she was the first to hampshire one minute to congress in 2006. please join me in welcoming, representative elect, carol shea-porter. [applause] and are nearly alike did official representing new hampshire's second district, representative elect, ann mclane kuster and finally, the new governor for the state new hampshire, please join me in welcoming governor elect, maggie hassan. [applause] >> welcome, welcome, welcome. so exciting. excuse my back. good morning. so great to see all of you this morning and thank you so much. we really appreciate it. good morning. we have a lot to talk about this morning and in my world, never enough time. i'm sure yours as well. i think i'll just jump right in. i hope we can have a group on a conversation to take us around 9:15, 920 or so. the first question i want to ask you a sense he talked about the day after the election, people over the united states been so profoundly excited celebrating this historic moment, viewing it as an hist
senator kelley ayotte. [applause] max, she was the first to hampshire one minute to congress in 2006. please join me in welcoming, representative elect, carol shea-porter. [applause] and are nearly alike did official representing new hampshire's second district, representative elect, ann mclane kuster and finally, the new governor for the state new hampshire, please join me in welcoming governor elect, maggie hassan. [applause] >> welcome, welcome, welcome. so exciting. excuse my back....
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i know we did some stuff at dod that senator kelley ayotte and i did a couple years ago to fix that problem. to make sure no matter where the active military member would go if you get services delivered from whenever doctor they had at any time. is there anything legislatively we need to do? >> senator begich, i don't know. the privileging issue is something that has to do with regulating bodies and medical care, the joint commission. the joint commission requires the individual be privilege at the point where they are delivering care. there is no law, not even a federal regulation that has anything to do with privileging. it's basically a requirement. we've been working with and to find ways to make it easier to have people privileged at various places. but right now privileging is the right of the medical center or the clinic delivering the care. >> very good. let me against a thank you for the work you guys have done in regards to getting what i call the hero scarred for health care for veterans to matter where they live, the services they've earned. thank you for that. >> i would like
i know we did some stuff at dod that senator kelley ayotte and i did a couple years ago to fix that problem. to make sure no matter where the active military member would go if you get services delivered from whenever doctor they had at any time. is there anything legislatively we need to do? >> senator begich, i don't know. the privileging issue is something that has to do with regulating bodies and medical care, the joint commission. the joint commission requires the individual be...
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. >> thank you, senator ayotte. senator portman? >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity. i just left the finance committing on the irs to talk about the tax reform and not just tax administration. but this hearing is important because it's talking about a specific provision of our international tax resumes that allows u.s. companies to effectively take ip rights created here in the u.s. to foreign jurisdictions. some by means of cost sharing. some through other agreements. i agree with you, mr. chairman, and the ranking member, we need address the issue. i totally disagree that we ought to do it through picking out specific tax loophole or preferences. we have to reform the code. if we don't that, our companies will continue to do uncompetitive. you think about it. we have an uncompetitive tax system now. we're competing with one mind our back. we are taking certain refer and they makes feel better in effect it makes it less. now 35%. we are looking at several decades of tax policy that is ain't kuwaited and came up with the times. i have a proposal to do that. it's reven
. >> thank you, senator ayotte. senator portman? >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity. i just left the finance committing on the irs to talk about the tax reform and not just tax administration. but this hearing is important because it's talking about a specific provision of our international tax resumes that allows u.s. companies to effectively take ip rights created here in the u.s. to foreign jurisdictions. some by means of cost sharing. some through other agreements. i...
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victim advocates that senator ayotte has supported to make sure the moment you come not of the shadows that someone will be there for you and no one else. they are your guide and soyoil to you to help you to the system. there are so many good things that our members have come up with some of their passion has brought attention to this and so we appreciate their passion but to my colleagues the decisions they make on how to solve this problem have wide-ranging effects of how the military operates and at the end of the day it will be our commanders who decide who goes into battle and who stays behind. they have a lot of hard decisions prosecuting sexual assault cases is a big decision but one of many difficult to have to make i trust our commanders are going to do better because he will hold them accountable we could not get the results that we wonder if we pull the matt of the game. >> there is a series of amendments to offer then we will offer this up to debate >> we have an additional 10 amendments relating to sexual assault include macassar gold number 21 as authorized. for temporary
victim advocates that senator ayotte has supported to make sure the moment you come not of the shadows that someone will be there for you and no one else. they are your guide and soyoil to you to help you to the system. there are so many good things that our members have come up with some of their passion has brought attention to this and so we appreciate their passion but to my colleagues the decisions they make on how to solve this problem have wide-ranging effects of how the military...
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. >> thank you, senator ayotte. senator nelson. >> tram one general kehler, you spoke very crisply about us having the ability and our command and control to control our nuclear response. and i appreciate that. that is assuring. even though we might have a cyberattack that would take out of luck or create some sort earth and so on. what about the russians and the chinese? do they have the ability to stop some cyberattack from launching one of their nuclear icbms? >> senator, i don't know. i do not know. >> mr. chairman, i think that's a question that we are at to see to what degree we could answer. it reminds me in the disintegration of the soviet union. it was the united states that took the initiative and non-lucre to go in and try to secure those ends. and that turned out to be a very successful program. and in this new world of cyberthreat, we of course have to be responsible for hours, or we have to worry about those others on the planet that have a nuclear strike capability of protecting bears again sat outsid
. >> thank you, senator ayotte. senator nelson. >> tram one general kehler, you spoke very crisply about us having the ability and our command and control to control our nuclear response. and i appreciate that. that is assuring. even though we might have a cyberattack that would take out of luck or create some sort earth and so on. what about the russians and the chinese? do they have the ability to stop some cyberattack from launching one of their nuclear icbms? >> senator, i...
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ayotte. ms. ayotte: mr. president, my amendment would establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to prohibit funding for the medium-extended air defense system known as meads. this is a system that our army said it will never procure. we have spent already $3 billion on this system -- mrs. murray: mr. president, the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: will the senate please come to order. the senator from new hampshire. ms. ayotte: it is essentially a missile to no nowhere. the chairman of the armed services committee has said we feel strongly that it is a waste of money. so we've already appropriated $380 billion -- excuse me, million in 2013 for something that our troops will never use, and some have argued that there's an agreement that we'd have to pay termination fees on. that's false. the actual agreement says that the responsibilities of the participants will be subject to the availability of funds appropriated for such purposes. the language is clear. with $16 trillion of debt, i would irk m
ayotte. ms. ayotte: mr. president, my amendment would establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to prohibit funding for the medium-extended air defense system known as meads. this is a system that our army said it will never procure. we have spent already $3 billion on this system -- mrs. murray: mr. president, the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: will the senate please come to order. the senator from new hampshire. ms. ayotte: it is essentially a missile to no nowhere. the...